Category: Travel
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Wednesday 10 April 2024Highlights: The interactive tour of The “Wieliczka” Salt Mine, the intense visit of Oskar Schindler’s Enamel Factory Today was a free day to decided what you wanted to do. In the morning most of the group, including Darby and myself selected a visit to The “Wieliczka” Salt Mine which cost 240 PLN…
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Tuesday 09 April 2024Highlights: Visiting Palace Pławniowice, Exploring Wawel Royal Castle Today was a long travel day from Berlin, Germany to Krakow, Poland. This is a roughly 600 km trip which was originally expected to take 6 hours but leaving at 07:30 and arriving at 17:15 it took 9.5 hours. This was mostly due to…
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Sunday 08 April 2024Highlights: Brandenburger Gate, Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, The Canals of Berlin, the stunning Berlin Cathedral, visiting the remaining section of the Berlin Wall, exploring an underground bunker. Today our Tour CEO Christin kindly offered a tour of Berlin that wasn’t part of the official G Adventure tour. Originally this…
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Sunday 07 April 2024Highlights: Getting lost trying to get to our hotel, meeting our tour group Today we ended our short pause in Helsinki to get to the start of our G Adventures Eastern Europe, Croatia and the Balkans tour starting in Berlin.
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FinnairDate: 7 April 2024Gate: 23Seat: 5A & 6A (Economy Class Seats)Plane: Airbus 320Boarded: 10:55Pushback: 11:23 (Scheduled 11:25)Arrived: 12:19 (Scheduled 12:30)Duration: 1 hours 56 minutesDistance: 1,129 kms This flight was from Helsinki-Vantaa (Finland) Airport to Berlin Brandenburg (Germany) Airport Willy Brandt. This flight was between two countries in the European Schengen travel area so similar to…
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Saturday 06 April 2024Highlights: Landing in a snow-capped Helsinki, exploring the Senaatintori (Senate Square), climbing the steps to the magnificent Helsinki Cathedral, visiting the Kauppatori (Market Square) on the edge of the Baltic Sea, exploring the Temppeliaukio Rock Church. Our trip exploring Europe began today after a 13.5 hour overnight flight from Singapore to Helsinki…
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FinnairDate: 5 April 2024Gate: D33Seat: 33D & 33H (Economy Class Seats)Plane: Airbus 350-900Boarded: 21:10Pushback: 21:48 (Scheduled 21:45)Arrived: 06:25 (Scheduled 06:15)Duration: 13 hour 37 minutesDistance: 9,271 kms This flight was from Changi (Singapore) International Airport to Helsinki-Vantaa (Finland) Airport.
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Friday 05 April 2024Highlights: Farewelling Boots and Juno, Qantas Melbourne International Business Lounge, a surprisingly good Jetstar International Flight, and a welcomed shower at the Qantas Singapore Business Lounge. After a lot of planning the exciting day was finally here for Darby and me. Will an uncle and niece kill each other, or will it…
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Jetstar AUDate: 5 April 2024Flight Number: JQ7Gate: 10Seat: 30F & 31F (Economy Class Seat)Plane: Boeing 787-8Boarded: 12.32Pushback: 13.13 (Scheduled 13:05)Arrived: 17.55 (Scheduled 18:00)Duration: 7 hour 42 minutesDistance: 6,025 kms This flight was from Tullamarine (Melbourne, Australia) International Airport to Changi (Singapore) International Airport.
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My upcoming big trip with Darby (niece) is rapidity approaching with our first flight leaving Friday 5 April 2024 which is only ten days away. While Darby has been overseas before to Bali and Hawaii both times was staying mostly in one location. However, this trip we see us on the move every few days…
